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-vv- ijswyy" 'aS^ . ? ' ;. iia^j ' " ''<7~i'- *; \/Sgl THE CAMDEN J?I R\4L . - ''- - .[NEWSE.itlES.] VOL. II. CAJIDES, SOUTH MROLHIA, WEDSBSDAI, SEPTEMBER IS, 1841, NO. 41. Published every Wednesday Morning, THOMAS W. PEGUES, At three dollars in advance, three dollars and fifty cents in six months; or four dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square for the first, and 37 1-2 for each subsequent insertion.? | The number of insertions .o ho noted on all advertise nionts, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. One dollar per square wil' be charged for a single insertion. Semi-monthly, Monthly and Quarterly advertisements will be charged the same as new ones each invertion. ? All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and 'Communications recommending Candidates for publie Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, xvill be charged as advertisements. Accounts for Advertising and Job Work will be presented for paying ^jarterly. O* All Letters by mail must be post paid to insuro punctual attention. LAD lES'K 5 D~S LIPPERST The subscribers bare just received and opened a beautiful lot of Amcriccn ana English Kid Slippers, made expressly to their order in Philadelphia. ALSO.?A full assortment of Gentlemen's fine Cnlf, and Ladies' Leather and Seal Shoes, of WHITE'S manufactory. JONES & HIJGHSON Aug. 18. 3t37 JAMES CaNTEY, ATTORNEY AT Z.AW, -Will attend the Courts of Kershaw. Lancaster, Richland and Sumter. Office in the rear of the Court House. Camden, June 2. THOMAS S. ANDERSON, Attorney at Law. Will attend the Courts of Kershaw, Sumter, and * Lancaster. lie may be found, duiring thia summer, at the Camden residence of Dr. E. II. Andcr. son, sen. June 9. : GOO!) WATER. The subscriber living too remote from the sphere of his engagements, offers his IIouso and about 110 acres of Land, for sale, situated near the Providcnco Springs, in Sumter District. Any persons wishing a pleasant and healthy residence for the summer would do well to call and see. NOAII GRAIIAM. Providcnco, June 9. To the Members of the Legislature ot & . Carolina: General JAMES W. CANTEY is respectfully announced a.s a candidate at the approaching session, for the office of Adjutant and Inspector General. by Many officers of the S". C. Miblla. ?-?* A* T Ti e tj? or,^ ?\ q? ?#<7 nyviviuRJ/AM tLi 1 will pay fifty dollars lor the delivery of my hoy George to me, at Longtown, Fairfield District, S. C. or thirty dollars for lodging him in any jail with information - of the same. George runaway on the 14th of May last, is about 33 years of are, 5 feet, 8 or 10 inches high, dark complexion, with a very high forehead, partially bald. He runaway last spring, and was lodged in Lexington jail, N. C. and will likely make for North Carolina or Virginia. Information may be forwarded to Camden, S. C. J M. S. PERRY. Aug. 18. 1841. tf37 Jl3*The Cheraw Gazette, Raleigh Star Carolina Watchman and Mecklenburg Jeffersonian will insert the above three times and forward their bills to this office. South Carolii?a--Sumtcr District. IN ORDINARY. ' Sarah Weldon, Applicant, vs Daniel VVcldon, Adm'r. and others defendants. li appearing to my satisfaction that W. F. Dunlap and wile, William Williams and wife, Torrance and wife, and Ann Weldon defendants, in the above slated case, reside without the State of South Carolina aforesaid. It is liie re fore ordered that they da appear and object to lite division or saleot the personal i state of Benjamin A. Weldon deceased, on or before the 25tli day of October next, | or they consent to the same will be enleied of re-1 cord. W LEWIS, O. L. D. Snmter, July 20. 1841.?34 CHINA'S HOTEL. The subscribe having taken the Hotel in Sumlor ville, near the Court House, informs his friends an-1 the public that ho is prepared to entertain BOAR DERS and TRAVELLERS. Ilis experience in tho business, and an undivided attention to tho comfort of his customers, he hopes wll secure a portion of public patronage. ALFRED CHINA. - Sumtervillc, July 15,1841. 9t33 Ordinary's Office,) KERSHAW DISTRICT. ) WHEREAS, no administration on the Estate of the late JDoct. David E. Reid has been applied for, in pursuance of the Act of Assembly, I have taken possession of such goods and chattels of i the said deceased, as could be found. All persons indebted to said Reid, are required io pay the same immediately, and all persons having demands against the said Reid, will present them duly attested to office. J- W. BASKIN, O. K. D. Feb. 19. 12lf . . / 9 " * . "7* : - .% POETRY" , WEDDED LOVE. The following lines are inexpressibly tender.? They ore addressed by a young wife to her despon- | ding husband: Come, rouse thee, dearest! 'tis not well To lot thy spirit brood I Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell < Life's current tO'R*flood; t As brooks and torrents, rivers all, I Increase thegulph in which they fall, * Such thoughts by gath'ring up the wills I Of ksser grief, spread real ills; r And, with their gloomy shades conceal t The landmarks hope would still reveal. i f Corne rouse thee now! I know thy mind, And WfJUli-ks stAiigtfruW'iken; Proud, giffd, noble, ardent, kind? Strange thou should be thus shaken; But rouse afresh each energy. And bo what Heaven intended thee; Throw from thy thoughts this weary weight; And prove thy spirit firmly great; I would not see thee bend below The angry storm of earthly wo. Full well I know thy generous soul, h 'Which warms thee into life; o Each spring which can its powers control, p Familiar to thy wife; it For deom'st thou she could stoop to bind b Her fate unto a common mind? s The Eagle like umbilion nursed G From Childhood in her heart, had first li Consumed with its Proiucathcan flame a The shrine that sunk her to the shame. u Then rouse thee, dearest, from the dream, c That fetters now thy powers! Shake off this gloom! Hope sheds a beam, To gild each clould that lowers; ^ And though, at present, seems so far The wished for goal, the guilding star With peaceful ray would light thee on, Until its bond be won,? , r That quenchless ray, thoul't^qver prove, ^ A fond, undying Wcddciiiove! ; _ ' X* . frw 1 REFLECTIONS OF A U#E?> UP LOVER. o Oh, Lizzy, I'm worsted? <1 I feel it all over; a I'm done up and bursted? I' A broken-down lover! The joys of my bosom s Have cut stick and vanished, c I know'd 1 should losc'tn b When my true love you banish'd; u The world has grown dreary, In its snckclotli of sorrow; u Of lifo I am weary, ^ And I wish that the morrow ' iVould dawn on iny grave, in the peace-giving val- " ley, jj iVhcre I'd caro not for you, nor for Sukcy, nor '' Sally. s J . ll - I know 'tis a sin to? ? But I'm bent on the notion; '| I'll throw myself into y The deep briny ocean, Where mud-eels and cat-fish |, On my body shall riot, I And flounder.1} and flat-fish n Select meTpr diet: [ Tliere soundly I'll slumbor v Beneath the rough billow, v And crabs without number j Will crawl o'er my pillow! But my spirit shall wander thro' the gay coral Dowers, And frisk with a mermaid?it shall by the powers! P?na?nan ii i swii ii?? II MISCELLANEOUS. 1 V c From the Now York Sunday Mercury. t A SHORT PATENT SERMON. BY D(i\V JR. . Text.?Why did you choose that cursed sin. Hypocrisy, to set up in? r Because it is the thrivingest calling? The only saint's bell that rings all in. v Butler. | My dear friends?If there is one object r of iniquity in the locomotive world, more d to he despised than another, it is a hypo- c crit?that machine for manufacturing pic- f ty, made by the devil's geometry?that s deceptive specimen of the genus homo, c who hus a very sweet voice, but a stink- r ing breath?who knocks at the door of ti salvation, dressed in the habilmenls of f disguisp; and vainly hopes to gain admit- c tance?aye, he hopes in vain for just as t sure as sin meets with its recompence, he, r and his whole tribe, will be pulled down i to perdition, like soap-suds through a sink r hole. Oh, hyprocrisy! put on as many I of sincerity as thou will, t UUllCI guiuiv...v - - ^ thy rottenness smells to heaven, with an s odor ranker than compound garlic and fi asiiiceiida! Thou art likened unto the fair v looking Dead Sea apples, which are no d sooner touched, than thev crumble to e ashes. Thou art every thing and any e thing, except what thou secmest to be.? | At thy shrine, thousands kneel down and I worship with one eye cast upward, and / with the other seeking to pilfer the co^t- g !y ornaments that surround thy golden al- i ler. I can point out before me now, a a hard christian, whose soul is whitewashed a with the lime of apparent truth and puri- r ty, and who is bribed to serve his maker, t by an abundance of this world's riches, a even as the heart of the political hypo- I crite is varnished with patriotism, through [ t!ie hope of licking the well daubed molas ses cups of office. It is'nl you young man by the post, whom 1 mean nor is i> you, young woman by the window?bul it is, you you bald headed old repiobate l>y the door; yes, who, for a mere pre:ence, makp prayers as longwinded as a iouthern gale?who offer up yourdevoions while your thoughts are out on mercenary errands: it is you who act as spiriual highway-man on the road to heaven, obbing the poor of the hard earnings, md persuading them that they lend to the Lord, while you pocket the whole; and I nake bold to tell you of it, in order that he arrows of conviciion may pierce your roncased heart, and bring you to a sense if repentance, ere it be forever too late, perceive that you wear a woollen vest, onioned close up to the chin, to prevent he cold winds of winter front affecting rour conscience. Well, there's need of t, and a flannel undershirt, likewise. Now listen broilier partner in the expe ience of age! Instead of entering in at he gate, you have climbed over the fence hat surrounds ihe garden of piety?roved broad in its precints?tangled up the igh grass of morality?(rod the flowers f virture under foot?and all under the retence of cultivating the ground, while i fact, you have been cropping the silvery lossoms of emolument, and sowing the eeds of vice and duplicity, on every side. ?ear in mind, you tottering monument of -ailty, that your day of dissolusion is l hand?that every revolving day winds p a link in the chain which binds you ;> the tomb?arul that you will soon be ailed to commence a voyage of discovery eyond life's continent, from whence no dventurcr has ever yet returned. What Ten do you think all your worldly gains /ill avail you? I will tell you. After ettling with the Evil One for services by im rendered, yon will have a ballance emaining just sullicieiit to pay your pasage down to everlasting misery?excltiive of wine, gastronomic substantial.? 'herefore, lake hted, O frost-bitten man f perdition, or you may seek for reemption where there is none to be found, nd call in vain upon one who will not ear, for your manifold transgressions. My beloved hearers?the reason why o many set up in that cursed sin hyporisy, because it is a thriving calling?that, y it, they can lounge away their time nder the tree of lucre, and call upon he honest and ignorant to beat the boughs 'hile they take posession of the golden ruit, as it falls! that by it they are enaIh.I tu mb the conlr'bution box of the widow's mile, and convince lier that it is ar llie glory of a Messed cause; and thai er poor dependant offspring should Ml hiveiingin the hitler blasts of want for he sake of sect, and the aggrandizelent of those who stand at his head.? 'hey can easily squeeze out a few tears f sympathy over the fatherless and disressed; but they are frozen, and fall like ail stones on the marble scpulcheis of he dead- To be killed with kindness, is pleasant death to die; but, for my part, bad rather go to the grave with the senry. than to be mortally overpowered villi any act of generosity which it lies n the hypocrite to forward A Patritot's Warning. If ever the tones of warning of the imnortal Jeffecrson should - be heard and iceded, now is the time. If there ever ras a period when they were more appli'iihi< than any other, it is the present.? lead and remember. A Warning Voice.?"To preserve our ndependence, we must not let our rulers oad us with perpetual debt. We must nakc our selection between economy and iberty, or profusion and servitude. II ve run into such debts, as that we must >c taxed in our meat and in our necessies and romfortp, in our labors and our imusements, for our callings and our :rceds, as the people of England are, our >eople, like them, must come to labor ixteen in the twenty-four hours, give the arnings of fifteen of these to the governnent for their debts and daily expenses, ind the sixteenth being insufficient to aford us bread, we must live, as they now lo, on oat-meal and potatoes; have no ime to think, no means of calling the nissmanagers to account; but be glad to ?btain subsistance by hiring ourselves to ivit their chains on the necks of our felow sufferers. Our land holders too, like heirs, retaining, indeed, the'title and leward-ship of estates called theirs, but teld really in trust for the treasury, must fjnder, like theirs, in foreign countries, nd be contented with penury, obscurity, xile, Htid the glory of the nation. This xample reads tlie salutary lesson that rivate fortunes are destroyed by the pubic as well as by private extravgance.? Lnd this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle n one instance, becomes a precedent for second; that of the second for a third; nd so on, till the bulk of the society is edjiced to be mere automatons of misery, o have no sensibilities left but sinning ind.suffering. Then begins, indeed, the lellum ojninum tn omna, which some ihilosophers observing to be so'generaj ^ - a - in this world have mistaken it for the nar tural instead of the abusive state of man. i And the fore-horse of this frightful team is, L Public Debt. TuXaijon follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.?Thomas Jefferson. < REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE. ! [From the Nashville Whig.] < IT^ The attention of the curious and | wonder-loving reader will doubtless be at- | tracted to the account of the Shower of < blood, which we copy this morning from < the Lebanon Chronicle. The material i faeistated by the correspondent, and cor- < roborated by the editor of the Chronicle, i to wit: that the particles which fell from I this strange and sanguinary cloud, are < veritable "tlesh and blood," we under- < stand is amply confirmed by Professor ? Troost, of t!ie University of Nashville t whose varied knowledge of the abstruce I sciences, and of "cause and effect" in the t world of nature, has been very properly I appealed to for the origin of this rare phe- < nomenon. t [From the Lebanon Chronicle.] I The following communication is from too respectable a source to question its ? verily; we therefore give place to it. We \ will add that we have evidences of the 1 fact?that the substance mentioned in the I communication, did fall from the heavens r in a shower, that no man in his senses can doubt. Although no one save the ne- t groes, saw it fall, yet the manner in I which it was found spattered upon the to- a bacco leaves, could leave no doubt upon i the mind of any one who saw it, that it had fallen. We huve seen and examined the substance?what it is we 'do not pre i ... I..., :. t;i.? .... tenu to conjecture; out iv lumo urvc jiutrid flesh, or a bloody glutinous (nailer concreted, and smells eery nauseous. Ii is indeed a miraculous occurrence, but not stranger than true. Scores of men of unimpeachable veracity, will le>tify to the fact of the substance being found as described in the following communication, and none who have seen the place, and learned the circumstances, pretend to question its having fallen front the heavens. SHOW ICR OF BLOOD. Mr. Kditor:?It is with some degree of diffidence! submit to the task of (linking the following communication to the public through your paper; being well aware that from the novelty untl strange.- ; tiess of the occurrence which I shall re- i late, I shall subject myself to the incredu- I lily of the public. But as the facts can ; be attested by a number of witnesses of the first respectability, I feel indemnified i in making the statement, 'l'he facts are i ... r..i- i On Saturday last, a young man brought to my office a small piece of tobacco leaf, I with an apparent drop of coagulated blood, : upon it, and requested an analysis of it? i slating, that lite substance upon the leaf j had fallen from u cloud in the heavens.? This excited my curiosity, and led me to I make particular enquiry, relaiive to this i strange phenomenon. 1 ascertained that I Mr. J. M. Peyton, of Lebanon, was in j the neighborhood at the lime this strunge < shower fell, which led me to enquire of him. Mr. P.'s statement wus that he was at the house of Mr. E. M. Chandler, i living on Spring Creek, about five miles i lrorn Lebanon, on Friday last?that about 1 1 or 2 o'clock P. M. two of Mr. Chan- 1 dler's nrgroes came in from the tobacco field, where they had been at work, and staled to their master, that it had been I raining blood in the tobacco field. Where- I Mr. Chandler, accompanied by Mr. i ..... , Peyton unci Mr. D. t>. Dew, returned with the negroes, and found, promiscuously J scattered over a portion of the field drops of blood, adhering to the tobacco leaves. 1 This statement of Mr. Peyton's?he being a gentleman of strict veracity?indu- 1 ced trie tc go in person, to the spot, and 1 ex:imine for myself. Accordingly, on ' Sunday last, I went to the hot^e of Mr. Chandler?who, in company with Messrs. T. K. and John Jackson, proceeded with me to the tobacco ground. Mr. Chandler stated in substance the same that Mr. Pey. ton had stated: that his negroes were at work in the tub cco, and about half after 11, or 12 o'clock, a rattling noise like rain or hail was heard by them, falling around, which they soon found to be drops of blood falling. On looking up, the negroes stale, llicy saw a small red cloud, passing swiftly from east to west, immetnediately over their heads, and which, soon after passing over them, disappeared entirely. Mr. Chandler and .Mr. Peyton visited the place about 3 o'clock the same eve- ! ning, and fmiiul, as they thought, drops| of blood and small portions of flesh.? Mr. C. stated he found a piece which lie ' thought to be about hull flesh and half fat, an inch and a half" or two inches long, 1 all of which produced a very offensive smell, extending all over the field. My visit was not until Sunday evening, ( about 50 hours fn?m the time the matter fell; at that time there was no odor perceptible, except when the particles were brought very near?the smell was then ' very offensive. 1 examined ihe drops hithe tobacco leaves, and satisfied myseli ' that thoy had fallen perpendicularly on the u v ,.v K.." z-~. ; ?.:.?*-r ; *' * ' ' ** ' ' * * v - * V -J^f -# ' - ^ ' leaves. I next e"xarnirie<! for the extern of the shower, and ascertained it ao-hove^ been from forty to sixty yards in width, and six or eight hundred yards in , length. A forest on the east, and a field of wrc<ls J3 Oil the west, prevented our. tracing it he- J yund the green tobacco. It was thinly scattered, probably, a drop for every ten.. :?r fifieen leel?although irregularly dispersed. I gathered from the leaves so.ine I ..'J particles, which appeared fo Ma"v& been clear blood, nncombined wiih any thing .i else; others seemed to .be finally pulver- : ? sed muscle and blood mixed, and other*---i" . 1__ ci ^UUI^IUOCU ui uiugtuiai uui o,aiiu/ouiffi/oo natt^jjntersperced; one portion of which : 1 found an oily exudation issuing from, || taiised by the heat of the sUn. As to the piantity which probably fell, f cotfl&get io very satisfactory account, so as to nake a probable statement; but that it 3 id "all in a shower over th& space above menioned, and that it is animal matter, are acts unquestioned by mj^. both from my . ? iwn observation and from tjfte statements tl the gentlemen before flamed, who are J: joth men of unquestionable veracity. ? ..v>- . Mr. Chandler and his neighbors have jreal confidence in the veracity of his boy* vho witnessed the falling of the matter.pi forbear any further comments at present;?" [ would only add that 1 have sept all the natter I could collect to Doctor. Gerard /?'. \IToost, of Nashville, who will, nodoybt, xhibit it to any p.'rson who may, call 4)tte , tim, where they may exumino for thefij- i '* ' ielves, and give the philosophical cause. y, f they please. S. . %> ' VIRGINIA ABSTRACTION'S. The rancorous bitterness with which vhe Federalists denouiire?-"Virginia abstractions"?the principles of the Repubicans of the Old Dominion, is but anoth- - * ;r evidence of their hatred of everylhrhg ' if a Democratic tendency. What are liese "abstractions?" The Ohio States-' nan gives a few pointed ill liberations of,c >vhat they were and are. It was "Virginia Abstractions,'.' says 7 hat paper, thataided to raise the standard ^ if rebellion against the stamp act and tea axof'76. It was "Virginiaf Abstractions," that ndited that glorious and immortal Deela ution of lodppendance, that made fre'enenofusall. ^ It was 'Virginia Abstractions/' thai laved our Coo<<tiiutiHti from having engraf- " led upon it an Executive and Setfa^e'rfny.--; life, and the power to incorporate a Bank " i very necessary appendage to a crofrn. "It was Virginia Abstractions," that re* ' *'x Jecmed our country from the "reign^rtf lerror" of the elder Adams, and Repealed the Alien and Sedition Laws! It was "Virginia Abstractions, "that braved the war of 1812, while Daniel Wvbtter and his junto ofHartfnrd C.onventionisls in Congress were voting against sup* : plies for our armies. And it has been "Virginia Abstraclions," that the whole Democracy of the nation have so noblv sustained, from'the tiisl dawn of liberty to this day, and which pervades all free governments, in every clime and in every age?Mercury. Pliny"s Wife.?What a good wife Pliny must have had. She was of the right stamp though she lived long before any of our modern improvements in female edtir cation. She cared not for parties, picnics, and ice-creams, her thoughts ran on other and better thpmes. She knew where her happiness lay?in whom, and conver* ted her willing dependance into a source of happiness. Let our ladies catch the lesson which her love, so truly conjugal mid hecominir. teacheth. Of his wife*. Pliny says:?"She loves science because she loves me. She carries with her my v writings, she reads them, she commftirv- ' them to memory. She sings my versw,'' she composes her own melodies to them, mill need* n<? other teaching than love." . A good wife that of Pliny! Melancholy Accident.?It is with regret we announce the death of an intelligent young lad, William J. Debiubft son of Jesse D bruhl,Esql, late Sheriff of this District, from the result of an acCttfetttai ilischarge ol a gun in the hands :bf his companions. The wound was^tftitjelved two weeks ago lust Saturday," ?nd' great hopes were entertained by his physicians and friends, that the dativerous" crisis had passed, when he was suddenly^ yesterday morning, called to ^ that boufne from whence no traveller returns. He Was an only son, ami the bereavement is an aflic - L! folil It VAC ling one in nis paremsj snir.c, f * ml friends. Fraught as this dispens Uron is wilit w>e, we trust it will l>e an admonition to parents to caution them against Mitrnsting fire arms to the management fyouth's custom too prevalent in this vicinity.?Southern Chronicle. A woman in Wisconsin, who was latelyittackedby n bear in the woods, turned in .villi her icngiie and talked the animal tot leath!?Ex- Paper. ' ^ Wr have some doubts as to the woman's 'diking to ihe Hear, for we never-yet saw i woman' who- would notscream, even ifi( ,vas with delight, when she was about tu je hnggtd.?S. C. Temp, Adv- - - - A-' M ":'v. f ?